Brown Family Tree - Person Sheet
Brown Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameMargaret “Madge” Arlenea Wood 
, F
, FBirth Date4 May 1895
Birth PlacePowelton, WV
Death Date11 Sep 1930 Age: 35
Death PlaceBeckley, WV
Burial PlaceHillton Union Cemetary, Oak Hill, WV
Spouses
Birth Date27 Nov 1873
Birth PlaceCarbon County, PA
Death Date5 May 1948 Age: 74
Death PlaceBeckley, WV
Burial PlaceSunset Memorial Park, Beckley, WV
OccupationFounder of Mountain Truck Sales
FatherThomas Pilkington , M (~1841-1903)
MotherElizabeth Trippier (Tryppyer) , F (1842-1911)
Marr Date5 Aug 1915
Marr PlaceBeckley, WV
ChildrenWilliam Thomas , M (1916-1964)
Gordon Ernest , M (1920-1924)
Notes for William Thompson (Spouse 1)
Resided in Berkley, WV.
WILLIAM PILKINGTON DIES IN HIS HOME
FUNERAL IS FRIDAY
Funeral services will be conducted for William T. Pilkington, 74-year-old founder of Mountain Truck Sales at Sprague, at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
He died early yesterday morning at his North Kanawha street home after a lengthy illness. He recently had returned from Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, where he had undergone treatment for two months.
Pilkington recently was succeeded as president of the motor company by his son, William T. Pilkington, Jr., only surviving member of his immediate family. Two grand-children also survive, along with one sister, Mrs. Ada B. Fleck, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Born in Phillipsburg, Pa., he was an inspector for the New River company before entering the motor business. He was also a member of the McDonald, Pa., Masonic lodge.
WILLIAM PILKINGTON ENTERS JOHNS HOPKINS
William Pilkington, Sr., 73, president of the Mountain Truck Sales Company, was taken by airplane from the Mount Hope-Beckley airport at 8:00 a.m. yesterday to Baltimore, Maryland, where he will visit the Johns Hopkins hospital to be treated for an asthmatic condition. Pilkington, who made the trip twice before for treatment, was the sole passenger of an eight-passenger Norseman single-engine transport plane.
Beckley Post Herald
Friday Morning, February 8, 1946
WILLIAM PILKINGTON DIES IN HIS HOME
FUNERAL IS FRIDAY
Funeral services will be conducted for William T. Pilkington, 74-year-old founder of Mountain Truck Sales at Sprague, at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
He died early yesterday morning at his North Kanawha street home after a lengthy illness. He recently had returned from Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, where he had undergone treatment for two months.
Pilkington recently was succeeded as president of the motor company by his son, William T. Pilkington, Jr., only surviving member of his immediate family. Two grand-children also survive, along with one sister, Mrs. Ada B. Fleck, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Born in Phillipsburg, Pa., he was an inspector for the New River company before entering the motor business. He was also a member of the McDonald, Pa., Masonic lodge.
WILLIAM PILKINGTON ENTERS JOHNS HOPKINS
William Pilkington, Sr., 73, president of the Mountain Truck Sales Company, was taken by airplane from the Mount Hope-Beckley airport at 8:00 a.m. yesterday to Baltimore, Maryland, where he will visit the Johns Hopkins hospital to be treated for an asthmatic condition. Pilkington, who made the trip twice before for treatment, was the sole passenger of an eight-passenger Norseman single-engine transport plane.
Beckley Post Herald
Friday Morning, February 8, 1946